THE END OF VIETNAM
Vietnamization - Nixon's policy for winding down the war
- troops withdrawn
- trianing and equipment given to South Vietnamese
- by 1972, only 2,000 soldiers are in Vietnam
Bombing raids increased
- hurt supply lines of North Vietnam
- bombing expanded to other countries - Laos and Combodia
Nixon wanted the enemy to believe that he would do anything to win the war.
- U.S. ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970
- 4 days later 1 protester and 3 students are shot and killed
- Nixon loses support from the public and Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed.
The Pentagon Papers
- the pentagon papers are over-exaggerated facts
- the pentagon papers are published after Nixon takes them all the way to the supreme court
Peace Talksn1972
- Henry Kissinger
- Le Duc Tho
- "Peace is at Hand"
- Nixon is re- elected
- Nixon bombs cambodia
- They agree to end the war
Major Changes After war
- no draft
- War Powers Acts - curb the power of the president
Disillusionment
- veterans extended a cold hand
- some veterans suffered from stress
- many citizens embittered toward government
- entire generation of Americans was affected
Vietnamization - Nixon's policy for winding down the war
- troops withdrawn
- trianing and equipment given to South Vietnamese
- by 1972, only 2,000 soldiers are in Vietnam
Bombing raids increased
- hurt supply lines of North Vietnam
- bombing expanded to other countries - Laos and Combodia
Nixon wanted the enemy to believe that he would do anything to win the war.
- U.S. ground forces invaded Cambodia in Spring 1970
- 4 days later 1 protester and 3 students are shot and killed
- Nixon loses support from the public and Congress Gulf of Tonkin Resolution repealed.
The Pentagon Papers
- the pentagon papers are over-exaggerated facts
- the pentagon papers are published after Nixon takes them all the way to the supreme court
Peace Talksn1972
- Henry Kissinger
- Le Duc Tho
- "Peace is at Hand"
- Nixon is re- elected
- Nixon bombs cambodia
- They agree to end the war
Major Changes After war
- no draft
- War Powers Acts - curb the power of the president
Disillusionment
- veterans extended a cold hand
- some veterans suffered from stress
- many citizens embittered toward government
- entire generation of Americans was affected